Patricia (Pat) Traver cultivated a creative vein early in life.  She attended several high schools including Mount Saint Mary Academy and Newburg Free Academy in New York and Lake Worth High School in Florida.  In addition to academic sources, she studied several facets of the arts, including photography, drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, and art history.  encouraged to attend college by her teachers it was not to come to fruition.  She decided to assist in the familybusiness due to her ailing father.  Soon married and raising a family, art was left behind and a career in accounting ensued for 45  years.

Now in retirment, she has reinvented herself as a successful artist.  Experimenting in many mediums, her current favorites are ils and colored pencils.

She has exhibited solo and jointly in New York and Florida, and has received numerous awards in juried shows.  Her works are in private collections in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Florida.